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• What to Expect When You’re Expecting … To Attend Your First Race: A Column by Josh Schwiesow

  20 May 12 • 4 comments

  By now, you’ve probably read about our newest noob columnist, Josh. Why cyclocross and why now? Well, don’t ask us, just check out his first column. But in Josh’s timeline, now that he’s found his new bike and taken a hard look at how the first season of racing went overall, he’s ready to start [...]

• Eight Questions for Georgia Gould

  19 May 12 • 0 comment

  

  Georgia Gould may not have had the best cyclocross season last year, but she’s been more than making up for it in the 2012 mountain bike season as she works to make it onto the Olympic team. We checked in with her after her most recent MTB World Cup, where she took fourth place as [...]

• Justin Lindine’s Off-Season “Balancing Act”

  15 May 12 • 0 comment

  

  Justin Lindine took the cyclocross scene by storm last year, snatching his first C1 win at the Providence Cyclocross Festival, and only narrowly missing scooping the entire New England Pro Shimano Series. By the end of October — after an amazing first half of the season — he was leading in USICX points. In his [...]

• Saving It All Up for Cyclocross: An Interview with Sue Butler

  11 May 12 • 0 comment

  

  Sue Butler has been a dominant force in women’s cyclocross in the United States for years, racing primarily on the West Coast but dabbling in World Cup races in Europe and even Worlds back in 2011. We caught up with her during one of her more relaxed off-seasons, and even during a “fun” season, MTB [...]

• Adjusting to the Coaching Game: Lessons from Robert Annis

  6 May 12 • 0 comment

  

  Robert Annis is taking every step necessary to ensure a successful cyclocross season come the Fall, and to do it, he’s decided not to go it alone. Instead, he’s found a coach, which he explains in his first column, Learning from a Coach: Lessons from Robert Annis, and we’ll be following along to track his [...]

• First Lessons in Season One: A Column from Josh Schwiesow

  29 April 12 • 6 comments

  

  By now, you’ve probably read about our newest noob columnist, Josh. Why cyclocross and why now? Well, don’t ask us, just check out his first column. But in Josh’s timeline, now that he’s found his new bike, he’s looking at how the first season of racing went, in order to see what needs to be [...]

• Meet the Frame-Builder: Niall Gengler of NFG

  27 April 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford One of the best perks of moving to Easthampton, Massachusetts may have been that National Champion Jeremy Powers is now practically living next door. But there are other perks, too, and one of the biggest is that NFG Cycles, a small custom framebuilding company run by Niall Gengler, is literally across the [...]

• Rider Diary: Nicole Duke at SPY Belgian Waffle Ride/Sufferfest

  25 April 12 • 0 comment

  

  We asked how Nicole Duke was training in the off-season a few weeks ago in our Women’s Wednesday column, and today she’s filling us in on how that training has been going. by Nicole Duke I admit, it’s a bit hard to write this as my brain is still foggy from the physical abuse I [...]

• Video Interview with Katerina Nash at Sea Otter 2012

  21 April 12 • 0 comment

  

  Sea Otter 2012 is doing something new and exciting this year: a cyclocross race in April. And it’s brought out some big names, including Katerina Nash, one of the most dominant US-based riders of the 2011 season. Cyclocross Magazine caught up with Nash pre-race for a quick interview.

• Stu Thorne Talks Back About Disc Brakes

  11 April 12 • 4 comments

  

  by Molly Hurford With the huge response we got to our most recent Mechanical Monday topic of disc brakes, we had to reach out to the man who has helped to start the revolution. Stu Thorne, the owner of CyclocrossWorld.com, chatted with me for a bit about his thoughts on disc brakes. Last season, Thorne [...]

• Off-Season Training Starts with Tour of Cyprus: A Rider Diary by Christine Vardaros

  5 April 12 • 0 comment

  

  Cyclocross Magazine’s Belgian correspondent Christine Vardaros last updated us from her last cyclocross race of the year, the Stannah Cyclocross Masters Indoor Race in Hasselt, Belgium, but the off-season hasn’t been much of an off-season for her so far. In our last Women’s Wednesday column, we asked women how they were spending their off-seasons, and [...]

• In the Saddle with Cannondale-Cyclocross World’s Jamey Driscoll

  29 March 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford Jamey Driscoll is one of the few top cyclocrossers that we haven’t written about in our “In the Saddle” feature until now. After a stellar 2011/2012 season that ended with one victory at Jingle Cross and plenty of top ten finishes throughout, the recent college graduate is already hard at work prepping [...]

• Collegiate Chronicles: Meet Jeff Bahnson, D2 National Champion

  22 March 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford While most of the cyclocross world knows junior racers like Zach McDonald, Logan Owen, Cody Kaiser, or any of the Keoughs, Jeff Bahnson manages to fly under the radar despite some serious results. He not only won the Division II Collegiate Men’s race at Nationals, but he did so with a unique [...]

• Going Pro; the Aftermath: Craig Richey’s Rider Diary

  21 March 12 • 3 comments

  

  After finishing his last race of the season, GVA Trofee Krawatencross, in 41st place, Craig Richey is back to fill us in on how his two year pro cycling experiment went. He initially made the decision to quit his job, take his savings, and really make a run at “living the dream.” Last time we [...]

• NAHBS 2012: An Interview with Richard Sachs on NAHBS, Cyclocross and the Return of Dan Timmerman

  8 March 12 • 0 comment

  Cyclocross Magazine’s Clifford Lee caught up with Richard Sachs on the final day of NAHBS 2012 in Sacramento for a lengthy interview about Sachs’ long history with NAHBS and all things cyclocross. by Clifford Lee I caught up with Richard Sachs for an in-depth video interview on the final day of the 2012 NAHBS in [...]